By the Rev. FE. H. Goddard. 847 
Of unusual eighteenth century pieces Hullavington possesses a 
fine two-handled cup of large size, of domestic fashion, dated 1738 ; 
and Colerne has a two-handled caudle cup with cover, elaborately 
ornamented with a removable outer case of pierced scroll and flower 
work—given in 1774, 
Having thus roughly traced the evolution of the chalice, a few 
words must be said as to the paten. This, as has already been 
stated, was in Elizabethan days simply a cover fitting closely to the 
cup. In the Jacobean type the paten still fitted the top of 
the chalice, but its rim grew wider, it became shallower and 
less domed, and the edge which fitted over the rim of the chalice 
disappeared. By degrees the paten grew larger, though still in 
many cases fitting the chalice as a cover (see Fig. 9); but with the 
new standard of silver in Queen Anne’s days came in a new fashion. 
The paten had grown into a salver standing perhaps Sin. high on a 
hollow circular foot, the top measuring Qin. or more across, and 
ornamented round the edge and also round the base with the 
characteristic pattern of the period—the fluting known as the 
gadroon. These patens are almost all of new standard silver, that 
is between the dates of 1696 and 1720, and bearing, therefore, 
the hall marks of the lion’s head erased and the figure of Britannia, 
instead of the lion passant and leopard’s head crowned; and more 
often than not they bear the donor’s arms elaborately engraved in 
the centre. 
Throughout the eighteenth century they continue as high, but 
not quite so large, and they commonly lose the gadrooned edge, and 
bear the sacred monogram in the centre. Frequently towards the 
end of the century domestic salvers or trays, with scollopped edges 
and standing on three claw feet are found, used either as 
patens or alms dishes. These latter, however, are commonly in the 
eighteenth century plain dishes with depressed centres—a pair, of 
precisely similar make, often serving, like the salvers, one for a 
paten, the other for alms dish. 
At Colerne is a paten of large size, and with gadrooned edge and 
base and an elaborate chased foliage ornamentation attached to 
its face, with a silver-gilt medallion in the centre of nymphs stealing 
VoL. XXV.—=NO, LXXV. 2B 
